worthless message in Powerpoint

[eganders]

I am giving a presentation over the next 2 days to a government group
using Powerpoint where I am hyperlinking to small video clips. Every
time I do the hyperlink, I get a virus message. Like others, I went to

the tools/options menu and turned the protection level to the lowest
which did not do it. Looking in the Microsoft database, it looks like
an Office warning and they indicate that a run command instead of a
hyperlink should be a work around--apparently the ONLY workaround. I
can't do that, I am committed to the presentation I have. WHY would
such a thing be in a piece of presentation software. So unprofessional

I can't believe it.

 

[Leythos]

I am giving a presentation over the next 2 days to a government group
using Powerpoint where I am hyperlinking to small video clips. Every
time I do the hyperlink, I get a virus message. Like others, I went to

the tools/options menu and turned the protection level to the lowest
which did not do it. Looking in the Microsoft database, it looks like
an Office warning and they indicate that a run command instead of a
hyperlink should be a work around--apparently the ONLY workaround. I
can't do that, I am committed to the presentation I have. WHY would
such a thing be in a piece of presentation software. So unprofessional

I can't believe it.

If you are giving a presentation then the presentation should be local
to your computer, including the video files, and that means you don't
need a hyperlink, build it right and you won't have that problem.

If you are not willing to use the software properly and insist on doing
it the wrong way, why are you here complaining?

 

[NewScience]

That's incorrect information. Just because it's a hyperlink, don't assume
that it's an Internet hyperlink. It could be a local html file, which
should not be any problem.

What virus message is given? Can you be more exact?
Is it just a warning or and exact message. Where is the message coming
from? Do you have any Real Time protection program running that scans for
viruses?

 

[eganders]

Alright, folks, give me more grief. Here is the reason I did what I
did. Maybe you have a better idea and if you do, fire away.

The files are local. Right in the same directory. The presentation
was constructed by another person (I constructed my section, but it was
included in a larger presentation). I wanted to modify my animations
after the presentation was assembled. I would bring them in and dump
them in the presentation directory just before the meeting. They were
exe files. (There are reasons for this, so don't say that they should
have been avi or something). I found that I could hyperlink to these
and not embed them. I thought it was a good idea. If a program allows
it and it works, why not? It is exactly what I needed and IF the damn
thing did not have a stupid warning, it would have been flawless.

 

[Edwin vMierlo]

IF
you (hyper)link to exe's from your presentation,
AND
you trust these exe's to be OK
THEN
exclude these exe's from your virus-scan program/setup

let us know if this makes any difference

rgds,
Edwin.

Alright, folks, give me more grief. Here is the reason I did what I
did. Maybe you have a better idea and if you do, fire away.

The files are local. Right in the same directory. The presentation
was constructed by another person (I constructed my section, but it was
included in a larger presentation). I wanted to modify my animations
after the presentation was assembled. I would bring them in and dump
them in the presentation directory just before the meeting. They were
exe files. (There are reasons for this, so don't say that they should
have been avi or something). I found that I could hyperlink to these
and not embed them. I thought it was a good idea. If a program allows
it and it works, why not? It is exactly what I needed and IF the damn
thing did not have a stupid warning, it would have been flawless.

 

[kkm]

OK, I may be way off beam here, but have you got .exe video clips
because they were created in Macromedia Flash, now part of Adobe.

If they are, can you get access to the clips in the native swf flash
format, because if you can, you can embed these into powerpoint
successfully.

Alright, folks, give me more grief. Here is the reason I did what I
did. Maybe you have a better idea and if you do, fire away.

The files are local. Right in the same directory. The presentation
was constructed by another person (I constructed my section, but it was
included in a larger presentation). I wanted to modify my animations
after the presentation was assembled. I would bring them in and dump
them in the presentation directory just before the meeting. They were
exe files. (There are reasons for this, so don't say that they should
have been avi or something). I found that I could hyperlink to these
and not embed them. I thought it was a good idea. If a program allows
it and it works, why not? It is exactly what I needed and IF the damn
thing did not have a stupid warning, it would have been flawless.

 

[Leythos]

That's incorrect information. Just because it's a hyperlink, don't assume
that it's an Internet hyperlink. It could be a local html file, which
should not be any problem.

You missed the point - Hyperlinks are not seen the same as file links,
so you need to pay attentionto what I said.

Hyperlinks are remote links, even if the content is local, they are not
processed in the same manner.

 

[eganders]

No, they are not Flash generated files. I suppose I could have made
them avi files, but the point of this is that the program is getting in
my way to do a job and it is a program that you are using to make a
presentation. Since I have made clear that I want to run an exe, it
should not keep complaining. You SHOULD be able to turn it off.

OK, I may be way off beam here, but have you got .exe video clips
because they were created in Macromedia Flash, now part of Adobe.

If they are, can you get access to the clips in the native swf flash
format, because if you can, you can embed these into powerpoint
successfully.

Alright, folks, give me more grief. Here is the reason I did what I
did. Maybe you have a better idea and if you do, fire away.

The files are local. Right in the same directory. The presentation
was constructed by another person (I constructed my section, but it was
included in a larger presentation). I wanted to modify my animations
after the presentation was assembled. I would bring them in and dump
them in the presentation directory just before the meeting. They were
exe files. (There are reasons for this, so don't say that they should
have been avi or something). I found that I could hyperlink to these
and not embed them. I thought it was a good idea. If a program allows
it and it works, why not? It is exactly what I needed and IF the damn
thing did not have a stupid warning, it would have been flawless.